Many of the women were dragging children whose clothing was equally dirty and ragged.
At one point in an art gallery, I turned to see a formidable-looking woman dragging her recalcitrant husband and children in my direction.
They comes on board panting, laughing and cussing, carrying and dragging small children.
They dragged men, women and children alike from their pews.
The women carried infants and dragged reluctant children at arm's length.
Parents have grown weary of dragging children through its 1,400 huge, often chaotic stores.
In the Next Generation: The popularity of crack among women drags children into the drug problem on a scale never seen before.
It might be hard to drag children away from this one.
Some of them come with their wish lists and shopping carts, dragging fidgety children by the hand.
It drags children backstage into the adult world of violence and sexuality.